Restored film of San Francisco’s Market Street version of a film shot on April 14, 1906, four days before the Great Earthquake, and the attempt to colorize and sharpen the video-converted film.
Oh wow that’s incredible
I love the guys at the end who are all like “Oh hey look, there’s a camera! Hello camera!”
I’ve seen these restored films going around, but without credit. The original 13-minute film is A Trip Down Market Street, which was shot and produced by the Miles Brothers. It was preserved in the Library of Congress and Prelinger Archives, and in 2018, Adrianne Finelli scanned and uploaded the footage for the Internet Archive. Now in 2020, Denis Shiryaev restored, upscaled and colorized the film. Shiryaev’s channel has even more restored footage, so check it out if you’re interested.
Remember to source and credit works that are not your own and respect the process and people that gave us this literal glimpse back in time.
I was high off my ass last night and had this dream where I was in this dense ass forest and sitting there was a tall woman. She was so tall I couldn’t see her face but she was wearing gold and I was like “uh…hi?” And she said “I made you, do you know that?” And I nodded and she was like “I hear your thoughts. Why do you hate my creation? Why do you try to destroy yourself? I made you perfect as you are. Please don’t break my heart”. Then she started crying and it flooded and I woke up with fucking heart palpitations like what does it Mean™️????
“As a child, Lizzo idolised Matilda, the little girl who uses her special powers to overcome her bullies in Roald Dahl’s revered children’s book. Now 31, Lizzo has developed some special powers of her own – not least the ability to lead a sea of 30,000 people at Glastonbury in a self-help affirmation (“… If you love me, you can love your goddamn self”).
That powerful stage presence belies the anxiety the Houston-raised singer, rapper and classically-trained flautist has spoken about candidly. “When I get really, really anxious before a show, I just go harder and harder and harder when I’m performing and I just go crazy,” she says. “I don’t know why, but my anxiety sometimes fuels who I am as a performer and who I am as an artist – and I know that is not the case for everyone. I don’t know if my body just, like, out of a desperate need to find a place for my anxiety or find a use for it, takes it and puts it there.”
Failing to see women and girls who looked like her in the media while growing up has informed the empowering approach that inspires such reverence in Lizzo fans. “I would watch things on television and I would look at magazines and I would not see myself,” she says. “When you don’t see yourself, you start to think something’s wrong with you. Then you want to look like those things and when you realise it’s a physical impossibility, you start to think, ‘What the fuck is wrong with me?’ I think that took a greater toll on me, psychologically, growing up than what anyone could have said to me.”
Now, Lizzo revels in embracing exactly who she is, and encourages her fans to do the same, but she’s cautious about certain aspects of the “body positive” label. “Anybody that uses body positivity to sell something is using it for their personal gain. That’s just it,” Lizzo says. “We weren’t selling anything in the beginning. We were just selling ourselves and selling ourselves on the idea – selling ourselves on ourselves, you know?” She may be smiling, but it’s clear that her final message is a serious one. “I’m not trying to sell you me,” she says. “I’m trying to sell you, you.”
